On radially symmetric oscillations of a collisional cold plasma

Abstract

We study the influence of the friction term on the radially symmetric solutions of the repulsive Euler–Poisson equations with a non‐zero background, corresponding to cold plasma oscillations in multiple spatial dimensions. It is shown that for any arbitrarily small non‐negative constant friction coefficient, there exists a neighborhood of the zero equilibrium in the norm such that the solution of the Cauchy problem with initial data belonging to this neighborhood remains globally smooth in time. Moreover, this solution converges to zero as . This result contrasts with the situation of zero friction, where any small deviation from the zero equilibrium generally leads to a blow‐up. Our method allows us to estimate the lifetime of smooth solutions. Further, we prove that for any initial data, one can find such a coefficient of friction that the respective solution to the Cauchy problem keeps smoothness for all and converges to zero. We also present the results of numerical experiments for physically reasonable situations, which allows us to estimate the value of the friction coefficient, which makes it possible to suppress the formation of singularities of solutions.